BJW King of the Deathmatch Tournament

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I saw some interesting listings by buzzkills5, and wondered, how exactly do the brackets work for this Tournament?

For example, it usually goes something like: 8 people in four matches so there are four winners, two matches for those 4 in the semi finals, then the two winners of those two matches in the final.

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BJW King Of The Death Match Tournament Quarter Finals 6/8/98 - (7/5/98), Samurai TV - ex.

Minoru Fujita vs. Ryuji Yamakawa
Tomoaki Honma vs. Yuichi Taniguchi
Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Jason the Terrible (KOTDM - Barbed Wire Boards & Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Death Match)
Shadow W*inger & Shadow WX vs. Shoji Nakamaki & Masayoshi Motegi (2/3 Falls Match)
Great Pogo vs. Kung Fu Lee (KOTDM - Barbed Wire Boards & Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Death Match)

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BJW King Of The Death Matches 1998 Special 6/8, 7/26 & 8/9/98 - (8/30/98), Samurai TV - ex.


6/8/98
Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Jason The Terrible (KOTDM - Barbed Wire Boards & Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Death Match)
Kung Fu Lee vs. The Great Pogo (KOTDM - Barbed Wire Boards & Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Death Match)

7/26/98
Tomoaki Honma vs. Shadow WX (KOTDM - Barbed Wire Boards Death Match)
Shadow Winger vs. Shoji Nakamaki (KOTDM - Barbed Wire Boards Death Match)
Shadow WX vs. The Great Pogo (KOTDM - No Rope Barbed Wire Death Match)
Shadow Winger vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (KOTDM - No Rope Barbed Wire Death Match)

8/9/98
Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. The Great Pogo (KOTDM Final - No Rope Barbed Wire, Glass Crush & Fire Coffin Cremation Death Match)

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Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I really can't figure it out. I know there are a few events there, so some matches may have appeared twice perhaps, but still.

Any help would be appreciated :-)

[buzzkills5]

look at the dates, and the opening round matches. they are the same matches, just replayed on the special. ignore the 6/8 show and focus on the KOTDM special.

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Ok thanks So basically it goes:

Non-Tournament:
Minoru Fujita vs. Ryuji Yamakawa
Tomoaki Honma vs. Yuichi Taniguchi
Shadow W*inger & Shadow WX vs. Shoji Nakamaki & Masayoshi Motegi (2/3 Falls Match)

First Round:
Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Jason the Terrible (KOTDM - Barbed Wire Boards & Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Death Match)
Great Pogo vs. Kung Fu Lee (KOTDM - Barbed Wire Boards & Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Death Match)
Tomoaki Honma vs. Shadow WX (KOTDM - Barbed Wire Boards Death Match)
Shadow Winger vs. Shoji Nakamaki (KOTDM - Barbed Wire Boards Death Match)

Second Round:
Shadow WX vs. The Great Pogo (KOTDM - No Rope Barbed Wire Death Match)
Shadow Winger vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (KOTDM - No Rope Barbed Wire Death Match)

Final:
Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. The Great Pogo (KOTDM Final - No Rope Barbed Wire, Glass Crush & Fire Coffin Cremation Death Match)

Right? Oh and until know, I never knew BJW had had a TOD of their own, I knew about all the Deathmatches but not a Tournament, sounds good!

[buzzkills5]

whoa...don't compare BJW's KOTDM or World Extreme Cup to CZW's TOD like it came first or something. CZW is like every other indy that took the idea from the first recognized deathmatch tournament done by IWA Japan in 1995. that's pretty much where all garbage federations got the idea to hold their own death match tournaments from.

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I was asking about the bracket set up for the BJW Tournament of Death, then I said was what I typed in my previous post, actually correct, then I mentioned that I never knew that BJW had had a Tournament of Death,.

So....Ok.... where did I ever mention CZW?

I already know the first ever TOD was in IWA Japan, I own a copy of it, so I'm really not sure what point you were trying to make there.

[buzzkills5]

TOD is a CZW tournament. King of the Death Matches (KOTDM) is the IWA Japan & BJW tournament, and so on. they've never been referred to as "tournaments of death (TOD)." that's a CZW name, so that's were the confusion is.

and the first death match tournament wasn't in IWA Japan, it was simply the first recognized and well-known one. there was a deathmatch tournament back in the 70's in a small indy promotion in texas.

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I always thought that TOD was the generic name for the Tournaments, I wasn't saying that CZW came first, I think that's where this confusion came from.
I mean, it's a bracket Tournament, and it's made up of Death matches, it seemed reasonable to me. Deathmatch Tournament = Tournament of Death, I was thinking.

I also didn't know that there was a 'World Extreme Cup' either, sounds interesting! Might have to check that out too.
But that one in Texas, bet it wasn't filmed, shame that

Glad I worked out the BJW brackets thing, I'll have to buy that too at some point :-D